Monday, September 24, 2012

Snap-EZ is a family run company. Snap-EZ was discovered by a Stay-At-Home, Homeschooling mother of twelve named Ruth! Her children range from newborn all the way through adult, two of them have moved out and now share an apartment together.

Here is the wonderful Snap-EZ family!

Snap-EZ was born when she was introduced to the new PUL pocket diapers by a dear friend of hers. She immediately fell in love, as have most of us cloth diapering mommas. However, she could not afford to buy enough to cloth diaper full time, so she began making her own and they turned out so wonderfully well that she decided to go beyond just saving money and began to manufacture and sell her wonderful cloth diapers.

Ruth is not like most of the other SAHM to WAHM cloth diaper sewers, she has some life long great experience to greatly help out her Snap-EZ cloth diaper business. Such as diapering nine children for eighteen years! Now she has eleven children and has been diapering for a whole twenty-five years!! That is longer then I have been alive! She was a professional seamstress for six years and also a business owner for six years.

Snap-EZ produces products to meet the needs of preemie babies, toddlers, children, youth and even adults! Along with training pants.

We received a Snap-EZ Multi-Sized Baby Pocket Diaper in the color of Bluebell.

While set on the smallest setting the diaper appears that it will be great on newborns. Snug leg elastic to hold in those newborn explosions.

Ezio wore the diaper on the second smallest setting. He is nine months old and roughly 24lbs, short and chunky! This setting gave us a secure fit, with OUT being too tight. My biggest problem with cloth diapering Ezio is finding a diaper and or setting that will be snug enough to hold in the yuckies, but not too tight other wise the elastic digs into his thighs and is really tight around his waist when he is sitting.

Cade is two years old and 31lbs. Unlike his baby brother, Cade is tall, and slender.

Usually diapers are too big in the waist on Cade, but fit Ezio perfectly in the waist, even quite a bit of one size diapers. With Snap-Ez, BOTH of my boys can wear this diaper, which moms cloth diapering multiples who vary in size totally understand.

I put our Snap-EZ diaper to the ultimate test if you ask me! Cade has a serious texture issue when it comes to food, so more often then not he doesn't eat all day and if he does it's a little bit of dry cereal or something dry and only a small amount of it, he drinks milk as his meals pretty much. So I'm sure you can guess how often he needs a diaper changing. He also wakes at least once in the night for a clean/dry diaper.

With our Snap-Ez I was able to fit a hemp prefold, which I folded a microfiber between each layer of the hemp. Total there were probably about 4 or 5 microfiber inserts and the hemp prefold, all fit inside of the Snap-EZ (see above photo) and he was still able to walk pretty normal, it most definitely was still a little bulky, but comparatively to some of our other pocket diapers, the Snap-EZ has a large pocket. Most of our other diapers I'm lucky if I can get two inserts in the pocket with out feeling like I'm going to rip the PUL. I loved that he was able to walk to his room and not have to be carried due to so much bulk. This is now our night time diaper! He was able to wear the Snap-EZ over night with no diaper changes until the morning!!! So EXCITING!

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Mohawk Industries is one the worlds largest floor covering manufacturers and distributors. They are the leading producer of yarn, ceramic tile, area rugs and bath mats. Mohawk headquarters is located in Calhoun, Georgia. They manufacture and market woven tufted broadloom carpet, area accent rugs, and mats along with a variety of hard surface flooring products.

Mohawk flooring has 125 years of history for excellence and is a lasting part of the American floor covering industry. Since their inception in 1878, Mohawks products have made them the most recognized carpet brand in history. The key to their success is the 25,000 employees that work diligently to produce, distribute, market, sell and support an expansive line of products. The men and women of Mohawk use state-of-the-art equipment to produce yarn that is used to tuft and weave the carpet and rugs and to create ceramic tile. They apply a cutting-edge logic to transport yarn and finished goods from across the country. They have developed award winning designs, customer-friendly marketing strategies and they also have committed customer support.

Mohawk sells floor covering and textiles for every room in your home and also for every commercial application. They have hardwood flooring, ceramic tile flooring, stone and marble flooring and they also have an exclusive distribution agreement with Congoleum. Vinyl sheet flooring is among one of the newest Mohawk products offered. Mohawk now offers woven bedspreads, tapestries, sheet flooring, pillows, throws and window blinds.

You can find Mohawk products in major retailers across the country and the world. There products can be found in Target, Home Depot, Bloomingdales, Macy's, Wal-Mart and many other locations.

Monday, September 10, 2012

Kelly Wels has introduced a NEW LOW price for her Changing Diapers Book: The Hip Mom's Guide to Modern Cloth Diapering!!

Are you interested in Cloth Diapering, but overwhelmed when surfing the web for cloth diaper help? Treat yourself to this helpful book! Wondering how good this book is or if it's worth it? Read my REVIEW on the Changing Diapers book.

Do you have a mommy family member or friend or a family member or friend who is currently expecting? Get them a Changing Diapers book for their baby shower and maybe even a cloth diaper or two! I know I would have loved that for a baby shower gift.

Thursday, September 6, 2012

Jewelry Candles was inspired by the famous classic movie, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The company loves the movie and thought that it would be awesome to put their own little twist on something similar to Willie Wonka's concept. So, instead of having golden tickets inside of a chocolate bar, they decided to place jewelry in all natural soy candles.

Inside of each candle, there is a hidden jewel that may be worth anywhere from $10 to $7,500. In the candle you may find a ring, necklace, pendant, bracelet, anklet, or even a pair of earrings. You never know what you will find in your candle, but it will always be a fabulous piece of jewelry.

Jewelry Candles are made of 100% natural soy and premium quality fragrances making these candles smell amazing. There are TONS of scents to choose from. The candles are huge, weighing 21 oz and have a burn time anywhere between 110 hours to 150 hours, so you get a lot of bang and fragrance for your buck. Each candle is hand poured with love from Louisville, Kentucky.

Custom Knits for Baby is an online only store, everything is made here in the USA on home knitting machines! Custom Knits for Baby carry a wide range of knitted items such as; baby blankets, sweaters, hats, mittens, scarves, etc. Along with some non-knitted items. Tons of personalized or monogrammed items, which are great for gifts or even just for your child. No more mix ups if their names are not removable from their hate, scarf or mittens!! The baby blankets are SO cute!

We received a Striped Roll Hat personalized with EZIO across it. This hat is made of 100% cotton yarn.

Ezio's hat is Chocolate Brown and Baby Blue strips with his name in Red. Ezio is eight months old with a 42cm (16in) head circumference, so I went with the 12-18 month size hat. This hat also fits Cade who is two years old with a 44 or 46cm head circumference.

Ezio looks so silly trying to pull his hat off.

He wouldn't leave it alone as he wanted to check it out and see what was on his head. Plus every time I put it on him I accidentally put it over his eyes.

Then he finally left it alone and he actually wore his super cute hat for the rest of the day. This is the first hat he has ever worn so I was quite surprised when he left it on the rest of the day. This hat is nice and warm, but not too hot. It will be a great hat for Ezio come winter time as it covers his ears as well and ears need to be covered in the cold Wisconsin winters.

These hats are machine washable. You can also get a coordinating scarf and mittens with the hat!

Saturday, September 1, 2012

As summer is coming to an end most of us are scrambling to get together those school supplies, clothes, shoes, etc for the up and coming quicker then you know school year. BloggerPR has brought us this Too Cool For School Giveaway Hop to help you win some of the necessities for sending your child(ren) back to school.

This event will run from September first through September ninth, if you start entering now you should have plenty of time to enter all of the giveaways in the linky below before the giveaway comes to an end. Each blogger is giving away prizes valued at $20 or more!

The Bento Lunch Box System is great for a variety of reasons, such as, if your looking for portion control, fun variety or an all-in-one lunch box system with a drink canister. The Bento Lunch Box System is an Eco-friendly plastic lunch box that has five compartments, is easy to open and close, and can be used for work, school, picnics, etc.

Go Green Bento Lunch Box System is also available with out insulated carrying case for only $19.95.

Measurements: About 12" wide, 7.5" across & 2.5" deep.

Drink bottle is 6" tall, 2.25" diameter, and holds about 9oz.

We used our Go Green Lunch Box System on picnics through out the summer and I plan to pack Jedilynn, our six year old daughter, school lunches in this awesome lunch box.

This lunch box system is great, we loved all the different compartments and their different sizes. The only thing I'd like to change about this product is I'd make the lid seal off each individual compartment as the lid does not seal them off so when you carry the lunch box on it's side in the carrying case things can slide to other compartments.

For our picnic we packed, grapes, watermelon, Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal and cherries. I'm not a fan of Cinnamon Toast Crunch cereal, but my kids love it and it is an easy finger food for at the park and on picnics, well needless to say the cinnamon spread through the lunch box and mom didn't much fruit due to the cinnamon on everything. Other then that, I think this is a great lunch box. The drink bottle has sort of a sports top to it, which myself and my children love! I also really like that the drink bottle has it's own compartment in the lunch box itself. So you can choose to fill the drink bottle or take it out completely and you have a whole other compartment to put more food, possibly a few pieces of plastic ware. The Bento lunch box fits snug in the insulated carrying case. The little turn-n-lock retention clips are not the greatest. I often let my two year old, Cade, play with products we try/use and write reviews on and those clips were tied from their little string with in minutes of him having the lunch box. I personally actually prefer the lunch box with out those on, to me it makes it easier.

You can purchase your very own Go Green Bento Lunch Box System HERE for $32.99 or you can you purchase just the lunch box HERE for only $19.95.